Fascinating Ohio

November 19, 2018

July 16, 1957 – Pilot John Glenn sets coast-to-coast record of 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8.4 seconds in a Vought F8U-1 Crusader. While passing over New Concord, he dipped low enough to rattle and break windows all over town from the resulting sonic boom - a gesture that Glenn would later regret because having to replace all those windows really annoyed the town. But it did make the local hardware store owner very, very happy.